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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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2. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Plot
Style
Author's Purpose
Anapest
3. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Conflict
Allegory
Mood
Tercet
4. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Antagonist
Conflict
Falling Action
Onomatopoeia
5. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Parable
Hyperbole
Ballad
Irony
6. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Denotation
Climax
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Tone
7. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Figurative Language
Act
Folklore
Mood
8. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Sestina
Elegy
Subplot
Internal Conflict
9. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Protagonist
Rhythm
Meter
Motif
10. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Climax
Dialogue
Allegory
11. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Lyric Poem
Rhyme
Plot
Ballad
12. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
3rd Person (Limited)
Meter
Author's Purpose
Metonymy
13. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Simile
Stanza
Hyperbole
Satire
14. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Setting
Understatement
Villanelle
Parable
15. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Elegy
Verbal Irony
Allusion
Solioquy
16. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Assonance
Diction
Cliche
Voice
17. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Reversal
Folklore
Irony
Tercet
18. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Stereotype
1st Person
Image
Complication
19. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Act
Sestet
Conflict
Comic Relief
20. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Subplot
Connotation
Analogy
Recognition
21. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Rising Action
Allusion
Audience
Dramatic Irony
22. A character struggles against some outside force.
External Conflict
Closed Form
Hyperbole
Paradox
23. Broken down acts.
Comic Relief
Scenes
Aubade
Sestet
24. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Suspense
Elegy
Ballad
Parallelism
25. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Diction
Imagery
Recognition
Pyrrhic
26. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Anapest
Onomatopoeia
Scenes
Catharsis
27. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Parable
Iamb
Metaphor
Subject
28. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Aside
Subplot
Closed Form
Connotation
29. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Apostrophe
Paradox
Foot
Subplot
30. The selection of words in a literary work.
Diction
Foot
Climax
Cliche
31. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Climax
Foreshadowing
Dactyl
Sestet
32. What a story or play is about.
Literal Language
Dramatic Irony
Character
Subject
33. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Exposition
Elision
Hyperbole
Rising Action
34. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Irony
Meter
Closed Form
Motif
35. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Myth
Rising Action
Falling Meter
Mood
36. The organizational form of a literary work.
Alliteration
Literal Language
Villanelle
Structure
37. The person who 'tells' the story.
Aubade
Narrator
Symbolism
Aphorism
38. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Solioquy
Couplet
Epigram
Subplot
39. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Denouement
Suspense
Stereotype
Allegory
40. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Flashback
Connotation
Paradox
Apostrophe
41. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Character
Characterization
Setting
Analogy
42. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Nonfiction
Ballad
Act
Epiphany
43. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Paradox
Legend
Denotation
Lyric Poem
44. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Ode
Figurative Language
Denotation
Aside
45. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Free Verse
Legend
Hyperbole
Tone
46. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Theme
Connotation
Suspense
3rd Person (Limited)
47. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Pyrrhic
Denotation
Connotation
48. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Narrator
Falling Action
Persona
Meter
49. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Understatement
Epiphany
Parody
Caesura
50. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Convention
Rhythm
Image
Parallelism